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Once a truce collapsed, Israel resumed its aerial bombardment and ground offensive in Gaza on March 18th
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And since then, some have noticed that the Israel military has been less forthcoming about its operations
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Nogartanapolski reports. Over many months of this now, almost 18-month-long war, the Israeli army was releasing very regular, several times a day updates as to its operations
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The military spokesman would discuss what its plans were for the military
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next day. And so even though journalists have never been allowed into Gaza throughout this
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war, we had a sense of what was happening, and we could follow it. I think it's important
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for the public to know that that is no longer happening. Two nights ago, there was a night
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in which more than 300 Gazans were killed. This has been put together using by Israeli media
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using the reports of Gaza's civilians. But the Israeli army has chosen in recent weeks
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a tactic where it simply issues very laconic statements, often just repeating warnings by its Arabic language spokesman
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informing certain segments of the population, residents of certain areas that they should move out
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And so the fact is that we're relying more and more on anecdotal statements
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This may be in part a result of the pressure being put by the families of hostages
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who are demanding the war come to an end and that Israel save their loved ones
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So the army may not want to indicate to the public exactly where it's operating
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and whether hostages might be being put in danger. But the fact is that we have much less information today than we did even, let's say
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two months ago about what the Israeli army is doing in Gaza
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and these operations have been pretty, pretty dramatic, both in the north and in the south of Gaza
